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Besides the 33 traditional symbols of the Amharic alphabet, there is another one that is equivalent to the letter V in the Latin alphabet. This symbol is used in words derived from foreign languages, like the words “university”, “television”, etc. It’s used to describe things with [...]

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The word order inside a sentence in Amharic is different than in English. Generally the verb goes at the end of the sentence and the structure is: Subject / Object / Verb.For example:

Sentence
“I am a student”

Amharic

ïne
tämari
näñ

እኔ
ተማሪ
ነኝ

“ene temari negn”

Literally

I
student
am

Subject
Object
Verb

If we now add an adjective to the sentence, it will go before the object:

Sentence
“He is [...]

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The thirty-third symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called PSA and it sounds like a letter P. This symbol is used in words that are borrowed from other languages like “pineapple” or “Pepsi”.|The animations were made according to the instructions in the book Writing and [...]

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The thirty-second symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called ÄF and it sounds like a letter F. |The animations were made according to the instructions in the book Writing and Reading Amharic and the sounds are from the site Amharic Online. Phonetic symbols according to [...]

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